On Nov 11, 6:53 pm, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote:
> I'm just learning about Google's latest: the GO (Go?) language.
> (e.g.http://golang.orgorhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s).
> There are some distinctly Pythonoid features to the syntax, such
> as "import this_or_that",
There's more to Python than import statements.
In fact, this Go language is nothing like Python.
> the absence of parentheses at the top of
> flow control constructs,
Huh?
> and quite a few statements without a
> trailing semicolon.
Those are exceptions, the rule appears to be "ends with semicolon".
In this example, I see semicolons all over the place.
05 package main
07 import (
08 "./file";
09 "fmt";
10 "os";
11 )
13 func main() {
14 hello := []byte{'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ',', ' ', 'w', 'o',
'r', 'l', 'd', '\n'};
15 file.Stdout.Write(hello);
16 file, err := file.Open("/does/not/exist", 0, 0);
17 if file == nil {
18 fmt.Printf("can't open file; err=%s\n", err.String());
19 os.Exit(1);
20 }
21 }
> Then again, there's a lot that looks distinctly
> un-Pythonlike, such as the curly brackets all over the place.
Duh.
> And
> among the un-Pythonlike stuff there's a lot that looks like nothing
> else that I've ever seen...
Go look at a C++ program sometime.
>
> Just out of curiosity, how much did GvR contribute to this effort?
I hope none that he would admit to.
>
> Cheers,
>
> G.
>
> P.S. Keeping up with Google is becoming a full-time job. It's
> friggin non-stop. Who can handle it? Truly incredible.
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